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The U.S. spends spends $5 billion of your tax money a year in “aid” to Afghanistan, plus billions more for the cost of the thousands of American troops and Pentagon-sponsored military contractors there.An “Epidemic of Graft”One of the (many)...
Letter to Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter: October 14, 2016 The Honorable Ashton B. Carter Secretary of Defense The Pentagon Washington, DC 20301-1000 Dear Secretary Carter: I am responding to Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Acting) Jedidiah Royal's October...
Protocols exist allowing the president to select American citizens, without a whit of due process, for drone killing.Only overseas, he says, but you can almost see the fingers crossed behind his back. Wouldn’t an awful lot of well-meaning Americans have supported an...
What motivates terrorists to attack the US and US targets overseas? US foreign policy primarily characterized by US bombs fired by drone into countries primarily in the Middle East. This has been Ron Paul's contention for years. Now we see that the FBI agrees. On...
The war in Afghanistan is ready to enter its 16th year (if it was a kid it’s be ready to start driving) and by most definitions is pretty much a bust. Despite that, both mainstream candidates have made it clear in public statements they intend to continue...
There is an attempt underway for a government to take control of our election process and throw the election to Hillary Clinton. It is not the Russian government. Mark this day – it is when we came to understand that the American government decided to elect a...
If Carter and Reagan hadn’t funded the Mujahideen, there would have been no Taliban. And if there had been no oil in Kuwait, there would have been no 1991 US-Iraq Gulf War. If there had been no first US-Iraq war, American troops would not have been stationed in Saudi...
Letter from Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) to Speaker RyanOctober 5, 2016 The Honorable Paul D. Ryan Speaker of the House of Representatives H-232 U.S. Capitol Building Washington, DC 20515Dear Mr. Speaker:Last week, the House and Senate successfully voted to override...
I’ve reviewed Oliver Stone’s movie Snowden elsewhere, and it’s well worth seeing just as a movie. But of course the issues brought up by Snowden the man, and Snowden the movie, are more complex than fit into two hours.I had this hit home in a recent...
